| 'Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance Contributor(s): Grieve, Patricia E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 052143162X ISBN-13: 9780521431620 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 809.102 |
| LCCN: 96019750 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 258 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This comparative study examines Floire and Blancheflor and shows how medieval writers from Spain, France, Italy, England, and Scandinavia reworked this story from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries to develop and emphasize social, political, religious and artistic goals. It shows the influence of a little-known medieval Spanish version, especially as a precursor to Boccaccio's Il Filocolo, and examines important issues of the development of prose fiction in medieval and Renaissance Europe. |